diff --git a/package/botan/Config.in b/package/botan/Config.in
index c82a77fb2..733dc8965 100644
--- a/package/botan/Config.in
+++ b/package/botan/Config.in
@@ -10,12 +10,11 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_BOTAN
 	depends on BR2_INSTALL_LIBSTDCPP
 	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS
 	depends on BR2_PACKAGE_BOTAN_ARCH_SUPPORTS
-	depends on !BR2_PREFER_STATIC_LIB # dlfcn.h
 	help
 	  Botan is a crypto library for C++
 
 	  http://botan.randombit.net
 
-comment "botan needs a toolchain w/ C++, threads, dynamic library"
-	depends on !BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS || !BR2_INSTALL_LIBSTDCPP || BR2_PREFER_STATIC_LIB
+comment "botan needs a toolchain w/ C++, threads"
+	depends on !BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS || !BR2_INSTALL_LIBSTDCPP
 	depends on BR2_PACKAGE_BOTAN_ARCH_SUPPORTS
diff --git a/package/botan/botan.mk b/package/botan/botan.mk
index ae0e02dbd..2e47eb6e8 100644
--- a/package/botan/botan.mk
+++ b/package/botan/botan.mk
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ BOTAN_CONF_OPTS = \
 	--cc-bin="$(TARGET_CXX)"
 
 ifeq ($(BR2_PREFER_STATIC_LIB),y)
-	BOTAN_CONF_OPTS += --disable-shared
+	BOTAN_CONF_OPTS += --disable-shared --no-autoload
 endif
 
 ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_BZIP2),y)